"Forget it. Once this man finishes his tribulation, I'll grab him and ask him myself."
The black-robed elder flung out a hand in irritation, then looked into the distance and continued watching Chen Changming.
A vicious gleam flashed in his eyes, like a hunter who had finally decided to draw in his net.
Boom!
Thunder roared through the tribulation clouds.
An expanse of lightning, fiercer than before, descended once more and engulfed Chen Changming. It spread across the sky like an ocean of lightning, swallowing the entire mountaintop.
"The fourth wave of the Lightning Tribulation has begun. It seems his aptitude isn't bad..."
The black-robed elder nodded lightly at the sight.
His voice held the offhand appraisal of someone judging an object that had just managed to catch his eye.
But when he saw Chen Changming emerge unscathed amid the lightning, his expression shifted. His brow twitched, and a sharp gleam flashed through his eyes.
"What? I misjudged him! He practices the Dual Cultivation of Body and Dao, and his body cultivation had already broken through to the Void Refinement Realm!"
The black-robed elder looked stunned.
Ordinarily, a cultivator who had just reached the Void Refinement Realm, First Layer would suffer at least some physical injury during the fourth wave of the Lightning Tribulation.
If he suffered none at all, his body cultivation had to be at least at the Void Refinement Realm, First Layer.
The Dual Cultivation of Body and Dao was exceedingly rare in the Spirit Realm. It demanded twice the resources and twice the time, a burden ordinary cultivators simply could not bear.
But those who succeeded were nearly invincible among their peers.
Greed flashed in the black-robed elder's eyes, brighter than before. He looked as though he had discovered a piece of uncut jade buried beneath